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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hubris?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:59:59
Message-Id: 201507282259.42472.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hubris? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tuesday 28 Jul 2015 21:18:43 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:29:18 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote:
3 > > >You may not need an initramfs to run root on btrfs as long as btrfs is
4 > > >compiled into your kernel (I haven't looked into it closely though).
5 > >
6 > > But I think you do if your btrfs is raid 1. The kernel can't mount
7 > > multidisk btrfs until it done a btrfs device scan in userspace, run
8 > > from initramfs.
9 >
10 > According to the btrfs wiki you can pass
11 > device=/dev/sda1,device=/dev/sdb1 on the kernel boot line.
12
13 Apologies if I have missed it, but what is wrong with using vanilla ext2 for
14 /boot?
15
16 Install it on /dev/sda and then dd it onto /dev/sdb.
17
18 --
19 Regards,
20 Mick

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